Kind of reminds me of America. The mere mention of snow and people are running to the store to buy out essentials. Schools get closed and people are told to stay home. Then the snow comes and it is only an inch or two on the ground.

TCM says rain will kill you, I guess TCM is from the days of acid rain. 

perhaps they are all made of sugar............and are afraid they will melt

(I read a short story years ago on this theme)

apologies for the necro-post

Never really saw that myself. Seriously. I used to walk in the rain with some girls...

Re Nash:

Are you ..... really that dumb? What the hell does this have to do with snow? The mere mention of a possible snow storm  people prepare for the worst (by going outside to buy necessities) . God you are so  dumb I can't even think straight. 

Let's go back to the basics. A little bit of rain (currently) and people are afraid to leave the subway station, building or even the bus. And its just drizzling. they are afraid to death of even one little drop of rain. And you try to compare that to people preparing for a possible snow storm? When the weather report calls for flurries , a dusting of snow, or an inch or 2 of snow people do not run out to buy anything to prepare. People run out to prepare and schools are closed when there there is  a storm system approaching. And that is the common sense approach . Because a storm system is unpredictable it could drop an inch or 2 feet. And people learned from experience that it is better to prepare for the worse. You clearly know nothing about living in America.

When it is drizzling, you know it is not raining hard. We're not talking about a rain storm just a damn shower. 

I understand for whatever reason that you have an agenda to try and speak positive about  China and slam America (Foreignland) but you are being completely ridiculous. There is 0 logic to the comparison. Here is how stupid you comparison is. Driver A 's check engine light comes on , He pulls over and waits for it to go off (afraid to death to drive with the check engine light on) Driver B's check engine light comes on, he drives to the mechanic to have everything checked out. You probably think they are both equally silly. 

Quit while you're behind.

Yeah, this makes me laugh. They really freak out about rain. I think Scand hit the nail on the head. TCM thinks that you will cool down slightly inducing instant death. I would have thought by now that the thousands of years of people getting wet in the rain and not dying would have dispelled that thought.

Best example of this I saw was a few weeks ago when we were walking to a restaurant in a shower. We went under a bridge and all the ebike riders were there huddled together in the dry. The funny thing was they were all wearing protective rain gear but were afraid to even get that wet.

Cold water falls from the sky, and you are not afraid ? Fools, you fools ! Why don't you drink it while you are at it !!!

Chinese are also afraid of the sun because they will get tan and "look like farmers" oblivious of the fact that such thoughts are already "like farmers" and they already think and behave like farmers all the time anyway.

So they don't like rain and sun, good thing China is perpetually shrouded in smog... I mean fog, don't throw me in a jail.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain
What a glorious feeling I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds so dark up above
The sun's in my heart and I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase ev'ry cloud from the place
Come on with the rain I've a smile on my face
I'll walk down the lane with a happy refrain
Just singin' just singin' in the rain.

The city I live in gets awfully dusty and dirty because it doesn't rain enough. The rain gives the city a sorely needed wash. I think some of the citizenry might also benefit from the ablutionary effects of a light shower.

They're afraid of everything here. It can be quite amusing.

It's simple; they're gremlins. And the first rule is they can't get wet and notice how they also don't like the sun? But they're always eating after midnight which might explain the population explosion.

I will explain with my  years of observation.

Simple :

They can not afford to have wet their only pair of shoes, or trousers, or the jacket. Because their homes does not have heater to make it dry. the infrared small "sun" does not helpo in this case a lot.

 I do not say, all of them, but many people here wear same clothes for at least a Mon - Fri, if they have free weekend to wash it. working 7days a week, the choices are more limited. they probably have more than 1 spare pair of shoes, but you know, it has to match with cloth, or need to keep it "for future use" .

 And some kind of superstition ,as mentioned above TCM BS, and so on. Luckily, my wife is fine, I gave her my umbrella today morning, while she send son to KG and me just wait under the tree for shuttle bus

 I am manytimes wonder about that too. they block complete exit of metro station or from Shopping centre, while they have umbrellas in hands and waiting for God's sign ...

Now that I've thought about it, cold water is bad for healthy. Rain is cold water, like DrMonkey said. Cold water is falling out of the sky!!! RUN FOR IT!!!